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Savings dry up, few jobs: Covid second wave hits migrant workers harder


Sudhir Paswan, 29, is back to square one in his village in Bihar s Muzaffarpur district, counting his losses. It has been more than a week since he returned, after failing to secure a job in Delhi. A labourer who loaded and unloaded goods in Delhi s Okhla Industrial Area, he would earn between Rs 200 and Rs 700 a day. Since the lockdown, there was no work and access to food and essentials became difficult. I had to leave the city, he said. Over 800,000 migrants left India s capital, for instance, for their hometowns in 2021. Paswan is just one of them.
Jobs have been hit harder since the lockdowns of 2021, put in place to control the second wave of Covid-19. May has shown double-digit unemployment figures, said Mahesh Vyas, chief executive officer of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a think-tank. More than 97% of India s population became poorer compared to where they were in terms of income, he said. Its effect on the informal sector, which had barely recove ....

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Covid-19: Why India should vaccinate refugees and undocumented immigrants as well


Covid-19: Why India should vaccinate refugees and undocumented immigrants as well
For humanitarian reasons and to keep the rest of the population safe, the country cannot afford to leave out anyone from its immunisation drive.
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Riyaz , a Rohingya refugee who lives in a crowded camp in Delhi along with nearly 300 others, is desperate to get himself vaccinated against Covid-19. But India’s
ongoing vaccination drive is only open to its
own citizens or those with any of the
All that Riyaz and the others in the camp have are the refugee cards issued by the ....

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Covid-19: Why India needs to vaccinate undocumented immigrants, refugees


Riyaz , a Rohingya refugee who lives in a crowded camp in Delhi along with nearly 300 others, is desperate to get himself vaccinated against COVID-19. But India s ongoing vaccination drive is only open to its own citizens or those with any of the 11 identity documents specified by the government.
All that Riyaz and the others in the camp have are the refugee cards issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A few of us tried to get vaccinated but we were asked for Aadhaar cards, he told IndiaSpend. The lack of an Aadhaar card also means that refugees cannot get themselves tested for COVID-19. ....

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